The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT139894In: 'The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill', Bell's edition, London, printed for John Bell. With engraved collective titlepages dated 1777. Each volume has an additional letterpress titlepage. Colophons dated: 1777.Edinburg : at the Apollo Press, by the Martins. Anno, 1777. 2v.,plates : port. ; 18° Books Books ~~ Language Arts~~ Linguistics ~~ General The-poetical-works-of-Edmund-Waller-In-two-volumes-From-Mr-Fentons-quarto-edit-1729-With-the-life-of-the-author-Volume-1-of-2~~Edmund-Waller Gale ECCO, Print Editions

Viking Juvenile. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. 448 pages. Dimensions: 8.3in. x 5.9in. x 1.6in.Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artista nearly impossible dream for a girl. After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her museor may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA., Viking Juvenile, U. New.